[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. La Science Du Bonhomme Richard

[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. La Science Du Bonhomme Richard, Moyen Facile De Payer Les Impots. Philadelphia [but actually Paris]: Chez Ruault, 1778.

The Roderick Terry copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

The third French edition of Franklin's THE WAY TO WEALTH. "Contains also the examination of Dr. Franklin before the British Parliament, in 1766, translated by Dupont de Nemours; the Constitution of Pennsylvania, as established in 1776; and the examination of Mr. Penn, at the bar of Parliament in 1776. Translated by MM. Quetant and Lecuy" - Sabin.

This appeared the same year as the first and second (also French) editions, the year that Franklin negotiated the first treaty between the United States and France and was the toast of Paris.

From Catalog IV

<em>The Way to Wealth</em> in French, printed in Paris under a false Philadelphia imprint in the first year of Franklin's mission — a piece of propaganda as much as a proverb-book, presenting the American as the embodiment of frugal virtue at the moment France was deciding whether to bankroll him.